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Dr Michele Grimbaldeston, The Centre of Cancer Biology, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA.
Michele Grimbaldeston received her PhD in 2002 under the mentorship of Prof Prue Hart at Flinders University. She then spent...

Dr Amardeep Dhillon, Oncogenic Signalling and Growth Control Program Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
The small GTP-binding protein KRAS and the protein kinase BRAF are activators of an evolutionarily conserved...

Professor David Thomas, Director, The Kinghorn Cancer Centre and Head of the Cancer Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW.
Professor Thomas is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and the newly appointed...

Dr Anne Bruestle, Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, Canberra.
Autoimmune diseases are chronic conditions that occur when the immune system mounts a response against...

NanoString® is a new optical technology that directly counts molecules with zeptomole sensitivity and digital precision. It has many advantages over PCR and RNAseq for detecting DNA, mRNA, miRNA, lncRNA, gene fusions and...

Professor Fiona Karet, Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.
Our kidneys are responsible for keeping many substances in the body in balance (such as salt, potassium, calcium and acid...

Dr Brian Billups, Eccles Institute of Neuroscience, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, Canberra, ACT.
Neurons in the brain release large quantities of neurotransmitters, which stimulate receptors on their neighbours...

Professor Peter Koopman, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD.
Exactly 25 years have passed since the discovery of Sry, the Y-chromosomal gene responsible for directing male development...

Dr Chris Jolly, DNA Repair Group, Centenary Institute, Sydney, NSW.
Dr Chris Jolly started his research career as a PhD student in agricultural research in the CSIRO to identify a new gene important for wheat quality. This...

Professor Jenny Martin, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD.
Women comprise more than half of science PhD graduates and early career researchers, but less than 20% of senior academics in...

Dr Anselm Enders, Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU.
Throughout my career my research has focused on understanding the pathogenesis of human primary...